Using <Enter> or <NewLine> key instead of Tab

[tor]

Hello
How can I use an other key then TAB to move from
one textBox to another??

Torfinn

 

[Benny Mathew]

Any particular reason why you wanna do that?

Benny

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Torfinn,

In order to do this you can capture when the key that you want to shift
focus is pressed (using an event, overriding the WndProc method, etc, etc).
When the event that is supposed to shift the focus occurs, call the
GetNextControl method on the current control and then call Focus on the
control returned.

Hope this helps.

 

[Chris Capel]

The best solution is probably to handle the myTextBox.KeyDown event, check
the KeyCode property on the event argument, and if it's KeyCode.Enter, set
the focus on the next text box you want with myNextTextBox.Focus() and set
e.Handled to true.

Chris

 

[Paul E Collins]

Or, instead of doing this for each control on the form,
set Form.KeyPreview = true and do something like the
above in Form_KeyDown.

Btw, ProcessTabKey would be helpful here.

P.

 

[Frans Bouma]

Hello
How can I use an other key then TAB to move from
one textBox to another??

Torfinn

http://www.syncfusion.com/faq/winforms/search/902.asp

FB

 

[Steven Wood]

I needed to do this for a client recently to allow really fast data entry on
a form:

Set the KeyPreview property on the form to 'true'

Add the following code to the KeyPress event of the Form:

if(e.KeyChar == (char)13)
{
SendKeys.Send("{TAB}");
}